Eesti kunsti oksjonid
Varmo Pirk “Tantsijanna”
Kevadoksjon 2025
Oil on cardboard. 1959.
Signature: Varmo P 959
| Measurements | 50 x 35 cm |
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| Starting price | 2 500 € |
| Number of bids | 1 |
| Hammer price | 2 500 € |
Varmo Pirk (1913-1980), a graduate of Pallas who spent almost ten years in a prison camp, finally returned to Estonia in 1954. His versatile creative path led him from realistic landscapes to abstractionism and from figural compositions to landscapes with geometric structures. The color scheme of the latter style, with its rare translucent reflections, makes the viewer’s heart melt in a truly special way.
Enn Lillemets has written that Varmo Pirk, under the influence of his teacher Aleksander Vardi, often relied on gray. This is also true in this painting where the method requires a single, binding neutral tone between geometric surfaces. In the piece, completed in the late 1950s, Pirk moves away from realism and observes the figure from several angles at once. The result is a portrait of a dancer divided into angular surfaces in the spirit of Cubism whose dancing momentum is well conveyed by Pirk’s lively style.
Text: Vappu Thurlow